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FIX: RELEASE POPUP _medit Command Causes Invalid Page Fault

Article ID: 161188

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q161188

SYMPTOMS

Issuing the command RELEASE POPUP _medit twice causes Visual FoxPro 5.0 to terminate. The error message states:

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down"

Pressing the Details button reveals the following information:

"VFP caused an invalid page fault in module VFP.EXE at < register address>"

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Visual FoxPro 5.0a.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

In the Command window, issue the following command twice:

   RELEASE POPUP _medit

The error message mentioned above appears and Visual FoxPro terminates.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvfp500afix kbprogramming KB161188